{"id":1145,"date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/?p=linkedin-22"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:00:00","slug":"most-people-sell-shovels-a-few-dig-the-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/most-people-sell-shovels-a-few-dig-the-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Most people sell shovels. A few dig the mine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people sell shovels. A few dig the mine.<br \/>\nFounders keep building \u201cAI tools\u201d for old workflows because it feels safe.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s yesterday\u2019s playbook.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t sell GPS to taxi companies\u2014build Uber.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t sell an \u201cAI recruiter bot\u201d to spreadsheet-era agencies\u2014be the AI-native recruiting firm.<br \/>\nPicture this: a staffing firm where hundreds of AI recruiter agents work with a small, sharp human team.<br \/>\nHow it works (simple):<br \/>\n\u2022 Find the bottlenecks that slow hiring and crush margins.<br \/>\n\u2022 Let agents handle 80\u201395% of the grind:<br \/>\n\u2022 Resume screening \u2192 automated<br \/>\n\u2022 Candidate outreach \u2192 personalised at scale<br \/>\n\u2022 Interview scheduling \u2192 hands-off<br \/>\n\u2022 Keep a few expert recruiters for calibration, relationships, and negotiations.<br \/>\n\u2022 Serve clients directly. Deliver faster. Stay transparent.<br \/>\nWhy this wins:<br \/>\n\u2022 You own the customer and the experience.<br \/>\n\u2022 You control pricing and margin.<br \/>\n\u2022 You capture real-time data at every step, so the system gets smarter every week.<br \/>\n\u2022 You iterate the business, not just the tool.<br \/>\nThis isn\u2019t about selling the AI shovel.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s about mining the gold yourself.<br \/>\nImagine: 24\/7 candidate engagement. Predictive pipelines. Near-zero admin. White-glove service for every client, at any size.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re building AI tools in 2025,<br \/>\nask: Are we just another tool vendor\u2014or the next full-fledged AI-native agency?<br \/>\nBuilding a full-stack AI-Agent firm where agents do 90\u201395% of the work?<br \/>\nLet\u2019s connect.<br \/>\nI\u2019m partnering with founders who treat AI agents as employees\u2014in staffing, accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, AR\/AP, medical coding, and BPO workflows.<br \/>\nWhich wins long-term: adding AI agents to existing service firms, or building brand-new AI-native service companies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people sell shovels. A few dig the mine.<br \/>\nFounders keep building \u201cAI tools\u201d for old workflows because it feels safe.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s yesterday\u2019s playbook.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t sell GPS to taxi companies\u2014build Uber.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}